Oologah Student Stricken With Meningitis To Have Multiple Amputations

TULSA, OK -- Six-year-old Jeremiah Mitchell, the Oologah student hospitalized from bacterial meningitis, had surgery Wednesday to have all four limbs amputated, according to his grandmother Carolyn Mitchell.

She says the second grader had been placed in a medically induced coma and doctors amputated his arms above the elbows and his legs above the knees.

Mitchell tells The News On 6, she is Carolyn is very hopeful that with the advancement in prosthetics, Jeremiah will be able to adapt.